FATE/MM 20: 2nd International Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in MultiMedia

Abstract

The series of FAT/FAccT events aim at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics of computational methods. The FATE/MM workshop focuses on addressing these issues in the Multimedia field. Multimedia computing technologies operate today at an unprecedented scale, with a growing community of scientists interested in multimedia models, tools and applications. Such continued growth has great implications not only for the scientific community, but also for the society as a whole. Typical risks of large-scale computational models include model bias and algorithmic discrimination. These risks become particularly prominent in the multimedia field, which historically has been focusing on user-centered technologies. To ensure a healthy and constructive development of the best multimedia technologies, this workshop offers a space to discuss how to develop ethical, fair, unbiased, representative, and transparent multimedia models, bringing together researchers from different areas to present computational solutions to these issues.